M. Michaela Hampf is professor of North American history in the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin. She is coeditor, most recently, of Machine: Bodies, Genders, Technologies. Simone Muller-Pohl is assistant professor of North American history at the University of Freiburg.
"Heralding the era of globalization, telegraphy as a medium of networked communication reimagined structures of power and patterns of interaction in the mid-nineteenth century. Hampf and Müller-Pohl bring together thirteen contributors to sift the implications of this one-time new media technology. . . . As a global history, the book's major contribution is offering a critical reconsideration of standard narratives of telegraphy as the 'Victorian Internet, ' a weapon of empire, and an abolisher of temporal-spatial constraints to argue instead for a more nuanced (and ultimately less Euro-American-centric) interpretation of the role of telegraphy in the nineteenth century. . . . Recommended."--R. Avance, University of Pennsylvania "Choice"
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